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Samurai

Warriors, famous fighting men in the old days in Japan. They lived by a special set of rules, the samurai code of honour (bushido in Japanese).

Ronin

Samurai without a daimyo (a lord or master). In Japan today ronin are more often called roshi.

Seppuku

Ritual suicide – killing yourself by cutting your stomach open with a knife. This was part of bushido, the samurai code of honour, and for samurai, it was better to commit seppuku than to live a life without honour.

Daimyo

A lord, a powerful ruler of a region in Japan in the old days. Daimyo often had their own armies of three or four hundred samurai to guard their castles and land.

Shogun

The military ruler of Japan in the old days, under the Emperor.